The Perfect Summary Podcast
Every summary, narrated: the GIST of great conversations and books in minutes, so you can decide if you want the REST.
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Berkeley roboticist Anca Dragan on how robots can understand people, share the road with them, and learn what we really want.
MIT roboticist Russ Tedrake on letting physics do the work, why contact is hard, DARPA challenge falls, and running barefoot.
Joey Diaz talks his memoir Tremendous, a brutal Xanax withdrawal, life with a felony, fentanyl, sleep and Comedy Store memories.
DeepMind's David Silver on cracking Go, beating Lee Sedol, self-play, AlphaZero, MuZero and why learning is the core of intelligence.
3Blue1Brown's Grant Sanderson on learning deeply, exponential intuition, commoditizing explanation, neural networks, Manim and meaning.
Pauly Shore and Joe Rogan remember Mitzi Shore and the Comedy Store, and talk grief, the Mothership, ibogaine and the craft of stand-up.
Tom Segura and Joe Rogan on lasting fitness, carnivore and cold plunges, taking the leap in comedy, and a 303-show tour.
Roger Penrose explains why understanding can't be computed, how gravity may reshape quantum mechanics, and a universe that cycles through eons.
Neuroscientist David Eagleman explains how the livewired brain rewires itself, from lost hemispheres to hearing through the skin.
Rogan, Eddie Bravo and Brendan Schaub watch UFC Nashville and Jake Paul vs. Nate Diaz, with fight breakdowns, comedy talk and conspiracy riffs.
Tim Dillon and Joe Rogan riff on AI, war money, Lizzo, sharks and masks, then get candid about addiction, comedy and sobriety.
François Chollet argues intelligence is how efficiently you learn new skills, and explains how his ARC challenge tries to measure it.
Brown professor Michael Littman on the history of reinforcement learning, AlphaGo, GPT-3's limits, and why he doubts AI doom.
Corbell and Knapp on David Grusch's claims, the backlash since the UFO hearing, the 2019 Navy swarms and new disclosure law.
Matt Rife and Joe Rogan riff on insomnia, ghosts, Bigfoot, chimps, troll farms, stand-up, serial killers and whether God is the universe.
Post Malone and Joe Rogan talk weight loss, fatherhood, AI songs, psychedelics, archery, surveillance, UFOs and the music they love.
Joe Rogan, Bryan Callen, Brendan Schaub and Sam Tripoli watch Sean Strickland stun Israel Adesanya, with conspiracy debates in between.
Mel Robbins shares the fresh start effect and three simple steps she used to reinvent her life after a painful 52nd birthday.
Mel Robbins makes the science-backed case for high fiving yourself in the mirror, and her husband Chris shares why he couldn't look himself in the eye.
Mel Robbins and her research lead Tracey unpack eight new studies: kindness, three-second exercise, birdsong, mindfulness, smell and self-kindness.
Mel Robbins shares her five-step Million Dollar Morning routine, from beating the snooze button to making progress before checking your phone.
Comedian Yannis Pappas and Lex Fridman riff on power, mortality, dogs, hyenas, the Battle of Crete, con men and finding your calling.
Kat Timpf and Joe Rogan talk tribal politics, her life off stimulants while pregnant, surviving a near-death surgery, free speech and psychedelics.
Harvard sleep scientist Dr. Rebecca Robbins shares free, research-backed habits for consistent, restorative sleep, from wind-down rituals to light and caffeine.
Lex Fridman explains how AI learns and shares his dream of robots and AI that remember our moments, ease loneliness and help us grow.
Comedian and actor Will Sasso talks MADtv, acting, AI-run podcast Dudesy, depression, loneliness in Planes, Trains and Automobiles, and pro wrestling.
Affectiva founder Rana el Kaliouby on her journey from Cairo to MIT, reading emotion from faces, in-car AI, social robots, affirmations and love.
Robert Epstein on his nationwide system for catching Google's ephemeral manipulation, and his theory that the brain connects us to another realm.
Joe Rogan, Matt Serra, Din Thomas and John Rallo break down fights, call for an end to weight cutting and swap stories about fighters and movies.
Ray Kurzweil explains why he still expects AI to pass the Turing test by 2029, brains to link to the cloud in the 2030s, and the singularity by 2045.